Fleur kisses Ron?-Re Semicolon debate

[Kimberly]

No: HPFGUIDX 15404

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Horst or Rebecca J. Bohner" <bohners at p...> 
wrote:
> > Why *does* Hermione hate Fleur so much?
> 
> She's gorgeous, which is enough to make any girl resentful of 
another girl
> even if they're not actually competing for the same boy(s).  I know 
I used
> to really resent a friend of mine who was constantly the centre of 
guys'
> attention and was always being pestered for dates, because she made 
me feel
> ugly and unwanted by contrast (even though I didn't want any of the 
specific
> guys who were asking her out).

But Hermione's been pretty secure about those sorts of things in the 
past, and now would be a strange time to start resenting someone just 
for being attractive to boys, since now is when Hermione herself is 
suddenly the object of two boys' affection, which is not too shabby, 
after all.  And surely there've been girls at Hogwarts all along who 
get more than their fair share of boys' attention.  

> 
> Also, Fleur is full of herself.  (I like her in spite of this for 
some
> strange reason, but it's true nonetheless.)  She is a snob, and she
> constantly puts down Hogwarts -- which would be sure to raise 
Hermione's
> hackles, because it's one thing for Hermione as a Hogwarts student 
and a
> house-elf activist to find fault with her school, but it's another 
thing for
> an OUTSIDER to criticize it.

Now this I can buy.  Fleur is rather critical.  But Hermione's all 
about the whole 'international cooperation' thing and getting to know 
foreign students.  The Durmstrang students weren't full of glowing 
compliments for Hogwarts either.  But I guess if she sees Fleur as a 
rival, like you said, on top of it, then maybe.  But I still don't see 
how she can see Fleur as much of a rival when she's got her hands full 
of boys right now.  And it paints Hermione in a less flattering light 
than I like to imagine her...  I'm just going in circles now.

kimberly
the puzzled